diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 29f82fc12da1cc..c527c1196d3d03 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1831,6 +1831,10 @@ Slice objects are used to represent slices for
 :meth:`~object.__getitem__`
 methods.  They are also created by the built-in :func:`slice` function.
 
+.. versionadded:: 3.15
+
+   :func:`slice` now supports :ref:`subscription <subscriptions>`.
+
 .. index::
    single: start (slice object attribute)
    single: stop (slice object attribute)
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
index c5321ee9983625..78bd53a560dee6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.15.rst
@@ -307,6 +307,9 @@ Other language changes
   not only integers or floats, although this does not improve precision.
   (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`67795`.)
 
+* The :class:`slice` type now supports subscription,
+  making it a :term:`generic type`.
+  (Contributed by James Hilton-Balfe in :gh:`128335`.)
 
 New modules
 ===========
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py b/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py
index 4e08adaca05cdd..0a83382ea5886f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_genericalias.py
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@
 class BaseTest(unittest.TestCase):
     """Test basics."""
     generic_types = [type, tuple, list, dict, set, frozenset, enumerate, memoryview,
+                     slice,
                      defaultdict, deque,
                      SequenceMatcher,
                      dircmp,
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-29-21-33-08.gh-issue-128334.3c5Nou.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-29-21-33-08.gh-issue-128334.3c5Nou.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..2908db863e076f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2024-12-29-21-33-08.gh-issue-128334.3c5Nou.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Make the :class:`slice` class subscriptable at runtime to be consistent with typing implementation.
diff --git a/Objects/sliceobject.c b/Objects/sliceobject.c
index 5186ff4f6f0cf5..2a402bb3347d60 100644
--- a/Objects/sliceobject.c
+++ b/Objects/sliceobject.c
@@ -569,6 +569,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(reduce_doc, "Return state information for pickling.");
 static PyMethodDef slice_methods[] = {
     {"indices", slice_indices, METH_O, slice_indices_doc},
     {"__reduce__", slice_reduce, METH_NOARGS, reduce_doc},
+    {"__class_getitem__", Py_GenericAlias, METH_O|METH_CLASS, "See PEP 585"},
     {NULL, NULL}
 };